Saturday, February 24, 2018

Pat’s flight home was an hour late last night; I was late to be by the time we ordered a pizza and ate it. We were up early and even though we sat around with our coffee we still managed to be out the door before 9:30. Pat had to pick up a parcel at the post office and I told him I’d take him out for breakfast. We were seated at Magpie’s before the Saturday morning rush; a meal at Magpie’s does me for the day so there was not need to stop for lunch and, therefore, I’ve managed to get a lot done today.

My fourth week of my online sampler series was released on Friday so that was my first task of the day. And with the end of the month drawing near I wanted to finish a few more of my monthly UFO Challenge – Bloom. I’m already looking forward to the announcement for next month but I may still be able to get a few more blocks done before then. Even if I don’t, I’m well ahead of where I was at the beginning of the month.

I was looking for a quilt pattern this morning and decided I needed a better spot for storing my quilt patterns. I had a basket that would work very well but it was full of cross stitch magazines and leaflets that I didn’t think I wanted any longer but wasn’t ready to send them all to the thrift store. I sorted them and added a few to a pile for the fibre people; I took some photos of a few of the leaflets and have them posted for sale on one of the cross stitch groups I belong to. I have a stack more to go but I’ll add them a few at a time and see how it goes; I’ve already passed along three of them to a local friend.

Once that work was done I reloaded the basket with my quilt patterns but, so far, I still haven’t come across the pattern I was looking for. I suspect it is in a bin or a bag somewhere because I know it was sone that I had fabric picked for. Someday all my baskets and bins will be empty but, for now, I’m on the hunt for just one more bin to store my Bloom blocks in.

I have more hand stitching to do for the evening, and if that gets finished I have more knitting projects!